I really hate booting into Windows 7 just to boot up Ps to cut out some stuff and then flip back to Ubuntu... plus, if i missed something or other, its a mega pain in the ass to reboot again.
Gimp also doesn't work well for this at all.
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As just Tom said, you will have to find a VM. The choices avaliable are: KVM: It's the 'new' virtualization, it comes with the kernel. You have to install a single application and you can either manage your virtual machine by console or you can do this with 'libvirt' (virt-manager). (3D support is the same as Virtualbox, read below. It's not really good so some operations may be slower than on Windows due to the lack of openGL accel.) VMWare Workstation: Commercial software, not really cheap but the best. It provides stable, excellent 3D performance, awesomeness when it comes to Photoshop (since I also do some graphical work when I have to and Workstation just does what I want.) VirtualBox: Free virtualization software by Oracle (cough Sun). It's not the best, the 3D is very buggy (it's just a hack from/by Wine sadly), but it's free. Give it a spin and see whether it does the job or not. For me, I experienced too many bugs to stay with VirtualBox. Parallel Workstations: A good virtualization software again. However, I never had a chance to test it for a very long time. Oh how could I forgot VMWare Player. Nowadays it's just like a free VMWare Workstation. Back then you couldn't make guests with it, but it's all solved now. Also you can just grab guest images from the web from sites like this. | |||||
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Why not run Windows in a Virtualbox VM? That gets rid of the reboot problem completely. Since you're doing web development, you could make the VM run a Windows server instead, which would also give you an always-available server for testing. | |||
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